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information provided by the political parties on their website; and (d)
the respondent No.1 should direct the Commission to dispose of all
applications under the RTI Act within the timeframe stipulated by the
RTI Act (Annexure M). The said complaint was numbered as
Complaint No.57 of 2014. In response thereto, the respondent No.1
issued a summons dated 01.07.2014 requiring the petitioner No.1 to
attend a hearing on 16.07.2014 at 11.00 A.M at the office of the
Information Commission, wherein the petitioner Nos.2, 3 and 4 were
also present. After hearing the same on 16.07.2014, the respondent
No.1 issued the impugned decision dated 16.07.2014 affirming its
earlier decision/order dated 22.10.2013 in Complaint No.97/2013
(Annexure-N and N-1 respectively). In the circumstances, the
petitioners had filed this application and obtained the instant Rule
Nisi.
The respondent No.1-Information Commission contested the
case by filing an affidavit-in-opposition stating, inter-alia, that
according to the provision of section 25 of the Right to Information
Act, 2009 the Information Commission had disposed of the Complaint
No. 57/2014 and thereby the petitioners have in no way been deprived
of any legal right and hence, they are not entitled to get any remedy as
prayed for.
The respondent No.2-Election Commission also contested the
case by filing a separate affidavit-in-opposition stating, inter-alia, that
the information demanded by the petitioners from the Election
Commission are not information of their own institution; rather those